Why is not wanting to learn a new convoluted Microsoft interface indicative of a "fear of change?" Perhaps they just have a fear of wasting their time when they have work to do.
Seriously, why do people fear change so much? The new Office design is much better than any previous version, in my opinion. No more hunting around in nested menus trying to find features - everything is right there in plain sight.
Because some of us actually use Office at work in very busy business environments, and my co-workers don't have time to learn how to "cope with change" or whatever because they're trying to get their damn work done. Instead fo hunting around nested menus, they're hunting around nested tabs. I've already put back Office 2003 on several machines because of all the complaints about 2007. They hated it--they even bitched that the Save and Print buttons were tucked away in the weird Office button that nobody knew to click until I told them to. I put both buttons on the quick button toolbar on top, but they still bitched. They simply detest Office 2007 here at my office and wish things were the way they used them for 10 years in older versions of Office. Most people don't have the time you and I have to learn Office because to them, software is just a means to an end.
Unfortunately, we've raised several generations of people who need the nanny state to tell them how to live. They don't have the capability to moderate themselves through intuition and common sense. Expect a bunch of people to whine about how the government tells them one thing then tells them another. How about not listening to a fucking government all the time? Go out in the sun and just roll with it. You'll know when 10 minutes have passed and it's time to put on the sunscreen or go inside.
As for Xerox, well APPLE stole from them, not MS. So at least get your stories straight..
No, they didn't. Apple paid for the tour and hired a bunch of the Xerox guys who ended up working on the Mac. Apple themselves invented most of the desktop metaphors we take for granted, such as pulldown menus (including the standard "File Edit View Window Help" layout), overlapping windows, icons, the trash can, and cut-and-paste (even the phrase "cut-and-paste").
The "Apple stole from Xerox" myth is FUD spread by folks who can't stand that people harp on Microsoft for its thievery.
Microsoft won't reveal actual consumer sales of Vista, nor will they reveal WGA activation figures. They only reveal OEM license sales which give a mistaken impression that consumers are buying up Vista when they're not.
After all, Dell just reintroduced XP on their machines due to popular demand!
First of all, political parties are irrelevant if you're talking about the Daily Show, since they do in fact make fun of Democrats all the time as well (It's just that the majority party typically exposes their flaws more often, and becomes cannon fodder).
Jon Stewart is a publicly-known Democrat, and when the show mocks Democrats it's due to facial features or speaking style. When they mock Republicans, they criticize their policies. Comedy Central is owned by Viacom, a major contributor to the Democratic party that had MTV mail out fake military draft letters to kids in '04 to "convince them to vote."
Second, Ted Stevens IS a layperson when it comes to technology. I'm sorry, but when discussing something as complicated as Net Neutrality, the Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, should at least have a rudimentary understanding of what the internet is, and how it works, since a large part of the debate is packet priority. Though "Series of Tubes" may not have been entirely inappropriate, the speech, in context, clearly shows that he misunderstands a great deal of the terminology and technology involved.
I'm still not clear what the big hooplah was over "series of tubes." The rest of the speech isn't what everybody mocked. It was the tubes.
I think the Daily Show just latched onto it because a Republican said it, and Jon Stewart is a well-known Democrat. "Series of tubes" is a perfectly reasonable description of bandwidth pipes and packet queues. The guy was just trying to describe bandwidth starvation to laypeople.
It is. Has been for some time now- ever since the US government decided to try to create one world currency only loosely linked to a commodity instead of strongly linked (the fiat petrodollar).
Money is an obsolete way of keeping track of wealth? Then why is it still in use? Did you pay for the computer you're typing on, and do you receive paychecks or student loan money? If money is obsolete, the answer to both questions would be no. But it's not, is it?
What a load of goofy, leftist crap. Money isn't obsolete and never will be. The capitalist free market is how nature works. Your "outdated business model" argument is really a red herring to justify piracy so that you feel better about the ethical nature of your activities. "I'm not ripping off artists. My actions are just a result of an outdated business model! Whew, now that I'm off the hook, time to download the latest Bad Plus album so I don't have to pay them for their work."
"Outdated business model?" The one where they go after people who are violating their rights and ripping them off?
What exactly would you consider a modern business model, online sales? They've been doing that for years through iTunes. You just want to scapegoat the RIAA to make yourself feel better about pirating other people's work. Admit it already.
Protecting your rights isn't "scare tactics." If you guys don't like copyrights, then you'd better abandon the GPL since it relies on them. You also can't bitch whenever someone takes GPL code without attribution.
For all the ranting that Slashdotters do toward the right, this is just proof that both the left and the right seek to institute fascism, banning anything they don't like and telling you how to think and live. It's a spectrum coming to a point at the top of a bloody triangle.
Nintendo has tapped a broader demographic of casual gamers, but what can they buy? Most of the games out now (at retail, and VC) are still catering to the hardcore...
Are you kidding? Wii Sports, Wii Play, Wario Ware, Sonic, etc.
How you can call the 360 a system for "hardcore gamers only" is beyond me. Xbox Live Arcade alone disproves that argument in my mind. There is a huge library of games for the 360 at this point appealing to both hardcore and casual alike.
Yeah, if you pay Microsoft money every month for the "full" service.
Everything about the 360 is for hardcore gamers only. Casual gamers don't care about the tech specs or HD capability. Even the name is targeted at hardcore gamers--a bunch of suits at around and came up with "X-Box" as some sort of goofy hardcore name, and they threw on "360" because it just wouldn't be enough to have a "2." The console's software library is a bunch of first-person-shooters. They even communicate to their users through some goofy gamer pseudonym (Major Nelson).
Microsoft even removed features in the Xenon so that they could jack up the clockrate to better compete with the PS3's tech specs. It's all about "HD" and "tech specs" and catering to hardcore gamers with lots of money to spend. It was a total mistake and is costing them dearly in the face of the less powerful Nintendo Wii which is appealing to the mainstream the way the original NES did (remember that the NES used a processor from 1975 yet still clobbered the competition).
That figure only refers to U.S. sales. Factor in worldwide, and the Wii has pummeled the competition (so has the DS). Nintendo is once again the #1 console manufacturer.
The Wii outsold the Xbox 360 by 25% last month. That's certainly a sizable lead, yet it's not exactly what I'd call "creaming the competition".
When you factor in that since November, the Wii has already sold 2/3rds the total sales the 360 sold in an entire year, plus the 360's non-existence in Japan, I'd say it's definitely creaming it. Microsoft was stuffing inventory to push up sales numbers last year to hit that magic 10 million number, and it's biting them now.
Let's ask Sheryl Crow. Not only does she seem to have all the answers, but the obsessive media is all to happy to report them to everybody. One square of toilet paper per shit? Sheer genius. I suppose the toilet paper is more for wiping the shit off your fingers than anything else. But think of how you're helping the planet here, and you know it's practical because it came from a liberal pop-folk musician. They're always right about everything scientific. And every day is a winding road.
How dare you, sir! It's clearly mankind that is causing global warming, and the only way to get rid of it is if people pay higher taxes to make up for their pure evil. It's not liberalism--it's a "consensus!" Al Gore knows all.
Cosmic rays can affect our biodiversity, but heaven forbid anybody suggest the sun affects our weather! It's the evil of mankind! Go green--the new marketing buzzword for people to make money off of (like "carbs"). Thanks, Al Gore.
I think the reason people ignore the ability to use the Classic Appearance is that it brings up the question of why you'd switch to Vista if you're going to use the old Windows 2000 look. You may as well just run Windows 2000 since it'll run much, much faster and use much less RAM. At least, run XP with the Classic appearance.
More like an attempt by AMD fanboys to make up for the past two negative articles on AMD by declaring that they will "Outpace Intel by 50%" in a Slashdot headline. Just to make themselves feel better about their choice of processor team to root for. Me? I go for whoever's best, and right now that's Intel.
You really expect the iPhone version of Safari to support full Ajax functionality? Yea, right.
It already does. I guess you missed the Steve Jobs demo that included Google Maps and Gmail.
You obviously have not actually written code to support Safari. It's unforgivable in the fact that it poorly renders pages that do not EXACTLY meet standards.
And this is where I know you're full of shit, especially if you're talking about the nightly builds that reflect the version included on the iPhone.
CanSecWest organizers actually had to relax the contest rules to make the hack possible, because initially nobody at the event could breach the computers under the original restrictions.
In other words, nobody was able to remotely hack the machine, so they allowed for local exploits, which someone used in a Safari URL.
Expect Apple-haters and other FUDmeisters to completely ignore the difference, like InfoWorld did yesterday in their breathless headline about "remotely breaking in."
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Why is not wanting to learn a new convoluted Microsoft interface indicative of a "fear of change?" Perhaps they just have a fear of wasting their time when they have work to do.
Because some of us actually use Office at work in very busy business environments, and my co-workers don't have time to learn how to "cope with change" or whatever because they're trying to get their damn work done. Instead fo hunting around nested menus, they're hunting around nested tabs. I've already put back Office 2003 on several machines because of all the complaints about 2007. They hated it--they even bitched that the Save and Print buttons were tucked away in the weird Office button that nobody knew to click until I told them to. I put both buttons on the quick button toolbar on top, but they still bitched. They simply detest Office 2007 here at my office and wish things were the way they used them for 10 years in older versions of Office. Most people don't have the time you and I have to learn Office because to them, software is just a means to an end.
Unfortunately, we've raised several generations of people who need the nanny state to tell them how to live. They don't have the capability to moderate themselves through intuition and common sense. Expect a bunch of people to whine about how the government tells them one thing then tells them another. How about not listening to a fucking government all the time? Go out in the sun and just roll with it. You'll know when 10 minutes have passed and it's time to put on the sunscreen or go inside.
Eskimos. Next.
No, they didn't. Apple paid for the tour and hired a bunch of the Xerox guys who ended up working on the Mac. Apple themselves invented most of the desktop metaphors we take for granted, such as pulldown menus (including the standard "File Edit View Window Help" layout), overlapping windows, icons, the trash can, and cut-and-paste (even the phrase "cut-and-paste").
The "Apple stole from Xerox" myth is FUD spread by folks who can't stand that people harp on Microsoft for its thievery.
Microsoft won't reveal actual consumer sales of Vista, nor will they reveal WGA activation figures. They only reveal OEM license sales which give a mistaken impression that consumers are buying up Vista when they're not.
After all, Dell just reintroduced XP on their machines due to popular demand!
Jon Stewart is a publicly-known Democrat, and when the show mocks Democrats it's due to facial features or speaking style. When they mock Republicans, they criticize their policies. Comedy Central is owned by Viacom, a major contributor to the Democratic party that had MTV mail out fake military draft letters to kids in '04 to "convince them to vote."
I'm still not clear what the big hooplah was over "series of tubes." The rest of the speech isn't what everybody mocked. It was the tubes.
I think the Daily Show just latched onto it because a Republican said it, and Jon Stewart is a well-known Democrat. "Series of tubes" is a perfectly reasonable description of bandwidth pipes and packet queues. The guy was just trying to describe bandwidth starvation to laypeople.
Money is an obsolete way of keeping track of wealth? Then why is it still in use? Did you pay for the computer you're typing on, and do you receive paychecks or student loan money? If money is obsolete, the answer to both questions would be no. But it's not, is it?
What a load of goofy, leftist crap. Money isn't obsolete and never will be. The capitalist free market is how nature works. Your "outdated business model" argument is really a red herring to justify piracy so that you feel better about the ethical nature of your activities. "I'm not ripping off artists. My actions are just a result of an outdated business model! Whew, now that I'm off the hook, time to download the latest Bad Plus album so I don't have to pay them for their work."
"Outdated business model?" The one where they go after people who are violating their rights and ripping them off?
What exactly would you consider a modern business model, online sales? They've been doing that for years through iTunes. You just want to scapegoat the RIAA to make yourself feel better about pirating other people's work. Admit it already.
Protecting your rights isn't "scare tactics." If you guys don't like copyrights, then you'd better abandon the GPL since it relies on them. You also can't bitch whenever someone takes GPL code without attribution.
For all the ranting that Slashdotters do toward the right, this is just proof that both the left and the right seek to institute fascism, banning anything they don't like and telling you how to think and live. It's a spectrum coming to a point at the top of a bloody triangle.
Are you kidding? Wii Sports, Wii Play, Wario Ware, Sonic, etc.
Yeah, if you pay Microsoft money every month for the "full" service.
Everything about the 360 is for hardcore gamers only. Casual gamers don't care about the tech specs or HD capability. Even the name is targeted at hardcore gamers--a bunch of suits at around and came up with "X-Box" as some sort of goofy hardcore name, and they threw on "360" because it just wouldn't be enough to have a "2." The console's software library is a bunch of first-person-shooters. They even communicate to their users through some goofy gamer pseudonym (Major Nelson).
Microsoft even removed features in the Xenon so that they could jack up the clockrate to better compete with the PS3's tech specs. It's all about "HD" and "tech specs" and catering to hardcore gamers with lots of money to spend. It was a total mistake and is costing them dearly in the face of the less powerful Nintendo Wii which is appealing to the mainstream the way the original NES did (remember that the NES used a processor from 1975 yet still clobbered the competition).
That figure only refers to U.S. sales. Factor in worldwide, and the Wii has pummeled the competition (so has the DS). Nintendo is once again the #1 console manufacturer.
Those are NPD numbers which only count U.S. sales.
When you factor in that since November, the Wii has already sold 2/3rds the total sales the 360 sold in an entire year, plus the 360's non-existence in Japan, I'd say it's definitely creaming it. Microsoft was stuffing inventory to push up sales numbers last year to hit that magic 10 million number, and it's biting them now.
Hey, they're teaching kids to go out and prove things for themselves rather than believe them off the bat, and that's never a bad thing.
Let's ask Sheryl Crow. Not only does she seem to have all the answers, but the obsessive media is all to happy to report them to everybody. One square of toilet paper per shit? Sheer genius. I suppose the toilet paper is more for wiping the shit off your fingers than anything else. But think of how you're helping the planet here, and you know it's practical because it came from a liberal pop-folk musician. They're always right about everything scientific. And every day is a winding road.
How dare you, sir! It's clearly mankind that is causing global warming, and the only way to get rid of it is if people pay higher taxes to make up for their pure evil. It's not liberalism--it's a "consensus!" Al Gore knows all.
Cosmic rays can affect our biodiversity, but heaven forbid anybody suggest the sun affects our weather! It's the evil of mankind! Go green--the new marketing buzzword for people to make money off of (like "carbs"). Thanks, Al Gore.
I think the reason people ignore the ability to use the Classic Appearance is that it brings up the question of why you'd switch to Vista if you're going to use the old Windows 2000 look. You may as well just run Windows 2000 since it'll run much, much faster and use much less RAM. At least, run XP with the Classic appearance.
Hush, you're shattering the dreams of hardcore AMD fanboys who post at Slashdot and submit biased headlines.
More like an attempt by AMD fanboys to make up for the past two negative articles on AMD by declaring that they will "Outpace Intel by 50%" in a Slashdot headline. Just to make themselves feel better about their choice of processor team to root for. Me? I go for whoever's best, and right now that's Intel.
No, it won't. It's the full WebKit.
It already does. I guess you missed the Steve Jobs demo that included Google Maps and Gmail.
And this is where I know you're full of shit, especially if you're talking about the nightly builds that reflect the version included on the iPhone.
In other words, nobody was able to remotely hack the machine, so they allowed for local exploits, which someone used in a Safari URL.
Expect Apple-haters and other FUDmeisters to completely ignore the difference, like InfoWorld did yesterday in their breathless headline about "remotely breaking in."